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Luxury, as an entirely relative term; a free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastees; also a mode of life characterized by material abundance and gratification of expensive tastes, (Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. IV, p. 887).Luxury, could among other meanings be defined as (1) abundance, sumptuous enjoyment; (2) the habitual use of, or indulgence in, what is choice or costly; (3) refined and intense enjoyment; means of luxurious enjoyment; (4) in a particularized sense; something which conduces to enjoyment or comfort in addition to what are accounted the necessaries. Hence, in recent use, something which is desirable but not indispensable; and (5) as an attribute as luxury coach, cruise duty, edition, flat, liner, shop, tax, trade, Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edn., Vol. IX.Means something which conduces enjoyment over and above the necessaries of life. It denotes something which is superfluous and not indispensable and...
Distrustful
Not confident diffident wanting confidence or thrust modest as distrustful of ourselves of ones powers...
Experientialism
The doctrine that experience either that of ourselves or of others is the test or criterion of general knowledge opposed to intuitionalism...
Familiarize
To make familiar or intimate to habituate to accustom to make well known by practice or converse as to familiarize ones self with scenes of distress we familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings...
Ourselves
An emphasized form of the pronoun of the first person plural used as a subject usually with we also alone in the predicate in the nominative or the objective case...
Coram nobis
Coram nobis [before us ourselves) [the king, i.e., in the King's Bench]....
Ireland
Ireland was a distinct kingdom until 1801, when the Union with Ireland Act, 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3, c. 67) (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Union Acts'), formed the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.' This Act confirmed the eight Articles of Union, and provided for Irish representation in both Houses of Parliament at Westminster. Redistribution of the Irish seats in the House of Commons was carried out in 1832, 1867, and 1885. The constant demand for a separate Parliament for Ireland led to the introduction of various Bills, but it was not until 1914 that the Government of Ireland Act of that year was placed on the Statute Book. The operation of this Act was suspended for the duration of the war. The demand of the Irish Republicans of the South for a complete severance led to the Govern-ment of Ireland Act, 1920, which superseded the Act of 1914. It provided for separate Governments in Northern and Southern Ireland, each with an Executive and Legislature of two chambers, and a Co...
Majesty
Majesty, a title of sovereigns. It was first used among ourselves in the reign of Henry VIII....
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